Words well worth remembering.

Our Lady of Perpetual Meanderings - a random conversation got me thinking:

"I have control over how I present myself.

I have no control over how others present me.

I have control over how much I allow people to color my experience of another, but it takes vigilance and self-awareness.

if I truly accept that I have no control of how others portray me, I will stop giving energy (in the form of caring about it) to that.

if energy follows focus, I will therefore stop feeding how others portray me and its importance will diminish."